{"id":34,"date":"2026-08-16T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/?p=34"},"modified":"2026-08-16T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2026-08-16T11:00:00","slug":"us-housing-prices-keep-climbing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/2026\/08\/us-housing-prices-keep-climbing\/","title":{"rendered":"US Housing Prices Keep Climbing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"video-zmyer\">\n<div class=\"video-frame-zmyer\">\n        <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\"\n                src=\"https:\/\/www.roomvu.com\/agent\/embed\/douglas-converse\/expensive-us-housing-146c\"\n                frameborder=\"0\"\n                allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\"\n                allowfullscreen><br \/>\n        <\/iframe>\n    <\/div>\n<div class=\"video-description-zmyer\">\n<p>Many buyers hoped for better affordability, but home prices stayed resilient nationally as demand held up after the pandemic buying frenzy cooled.<br \/>\nA key driver stayed familiar: too many buyers chasing too few homes. Limited inventory continued supporting prices, especially where demand held firm.<br \/>\nThe market also remained uneven. In places with more new homes and softer demand, buyers gained negotiating room as listings sat unsold longer.<br \/>\nAn economist said sales increased even as mortgage rates rose, pointing to housing demand building alongside steady job and income gains nationwide.<br \/>\nThe near-term affordability outlook carried mixed signals: incomes were rising faster than prices, but higher mortgage rates remained the main short-term challenge.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Many buyers hoped for better affordability, but home prices stayed resilient nationally as demand held up after the pandemic buying frenzy cooled. A key driver stayed familiar: too many buyers chasing too few homes. Limited inventory continued supporting prices, especially where demand held firm. The market also remained uneven. In places with more new homes [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":35,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reo-magician.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}